The Mayor's priorities on the environment

Mayor Sadiq Khan is working to make our city a greener, cleaner and healthier place for all Londoners to live, as well as for future generations. His top priority is tackling toxic air, a public health crisis that causes thousands of early deaths each year and is linked to strokes, heart attacks, asthma, dementia and stunted lung function in children.

He is helping London to prepare for the challenges ahead by making new buildings greener, tackling waste, encouraging recycling and setting out plans to be the first National Park City.

The Mayor’s work on the environment includes:  

• creating the world’s boldest and most ambitious plan to tackle air pollution, including doubling spending on tackling London’s toxic air
• taking older, more polluting vehicles off London’s roads through the T-Charge and proposals to expand the Ultra-Low Emission Zone for all vehicles from 2021
• tackling air pollution around London’s worst-affected schools
• monitoring air pollution with real-time alerts on London’s transport network
• making London the first National Park City, with more than 50 per cent green space by 2050
• protecting and improving London’s outstanding green spaces; increasing the number of trees through projects including the £9m Greener City Fund
• make new buildings more eco-friendly, including installing more green roofs and walls
• tackling waste and encouraging recycling
• working to make London a zero-carbon city by 2050, with projects such as the Solar Action Plan
• promoting cleaner and renewable energy and water
• supporting green technology and entrepreneurs with programmes like Better Futures
• funding Low Emission Neighbourhoods projects to improve local environments.